The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-09-03
MIDSUMMER FASHIONS.
Miscellaneous Suggestions for Ladies' Who
Like to Dress Well.


Like to Dress Well.
Black stockings are being somewhat
superseded by those which match the
color of the costume. A new ideas
but not pretty one, nor deserving Of
popularity, is of stockings with front
and back of different color. Some are
shown with front of black and the back
of red; others are blue behind and oil
i've in front.
The belted waist, or "banded bod
ice" as sailors call it, is of great favor
for summer toilets These have fun
straight skirt gathered to belt and
are without drapery. The sash is
passed around the waist and tied in
long loops and ends. The loops may
be fatty folded or there may be loose
open loops that swing and form the
drapery.
White, cream-tinted and yellow
sashes are most used, though shades of
tilleul and lettuce green are still liked
for black and white lace dresses.
Watered ribbons, with pecot edges, are
the general choice of these sashes.
Pompadour sashes are novelty, with
bands of satin strewed with small flow
ers of natural colors, alternating with
watered silk-stripes.
Lace dresses, made of the forty-inch
aces, either black or white, are worn
with belted waists of China Grape and
wide sashes. Sometimes the sashes
are of the new Roman MORE, which
comes in such wide widths that the
belted waists can also be made of them
and with the lace skirts have a very
bright and pretty effect The broadcast
sashes worn with these dresses are
fourteen inches wide, but those from
ten to eleven in width are much more
popular.
The crocheted white laces and Irish
point embroidery are very effectively
used as a wide border at the front or
side band on the skirt and as yoke
or vest on the waist of cotton sateen
dresses, in shades of pale gray, hello
trope, or the dull pink known as old
rose. These bordereG skirts are always
plain around, not plated, and for
many the velvet border is sufficient
without the lace. The same methods
of trimming are used with good effect
on cotton crepes and other cotton IA
brics.
For children's sashes wide surah rib
bons are imported with diagonal stripes
and rows of balls separated by heavily
twilled lines. These lie so closely and
compactly that they do not easily come
united, and are therefore best liked for
little peoples wear. Madras sashes in
rich dull colors are worn with black
lace or net dresses. When they are
worn with basques they are folded mar
rowly, brought to point in front, out
line the basque and are tied under the
position, making very bouffant EFF
feet.
The newest importation of ribbons
from Paris show strong tendency to
changeable coloring; red changes with
blue, shrimp pink with white, blue
with ecru and rose pink with green.
The "forescent" ribbons are new also
and come in sash widths as we'll as in
narrow samples. These instead of be-
ing one color shot across another have
changeable shades dyed in the silk, and
are either two tones of color or else
they have the color lightened by white,
as pale rose with white and yellow or
lavender with white.
The latest idea in the universal sailor
hat is to trim it simply with wide
band of heavy white ribbon, making it
rather more masculine than ever. Some
are trimmed with wide belt, with per-
pendicular blue-and-white or black
and-white stripes. Another fancy is to
cover blue straw sailor with tulle Of
the same shade. The brim is shrouded
with three thicknesses of the tulle,
gathered and held in about the crown
which is covered in the same manner
with loose rope of the diaphanous
material, which is arranged in a num-
Der of erect loops in front Across
these are placed two long, stiff blue
7 feathers, powdered with gold dust